In the last post on AWS CloudSearch, I provided a tutorial on the creation of a simple CloudSearch domain for Supreme Court decisions. This walkthrough described the steps of creating a domain, configuring access policies and indexing, populating the index,… Read more ›
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“Google” for subpoenaed emails: AWS CloudSearch for eDiscovery
Tagged with: aws, cloud, computational legal studies, data, eDiscovery, law, legal informatics, visualization
Posted in Law, Programming, Technology
Posted in Law, Programming, Technology
Visualization of Reading Level Frequency by Congressional Bill Stage
Here’s a fun example of how you might use my data on Congressional bill length and complexity. Imagine you want to understand the empirical distribution of Flesch-Kincaid reading level for Congressional bills and how this distribution is related to… Read more ›
Updates to data and statistics on Congressional bill complexity
When I put together my original post on the length and complexity of Congressional bills, I was hoping to build forward momentum on the project. The goal was to build a simple, sortable and searchable interface to explore and… Read more ›
Tagged with: computational legal studies, data, language, law, legal informatics, python, visualization
Posted in Law, Programming, Research
Posted in Law, Programming, Research
Plotting 3D Graphs with Python, igraph, and Cairo: #cn220 Example
Out of all the visuals I’ve produced, I think the "coolest" is the three-dimensional U.S. Supreme Court citation network 1080p movie I produced with Dan Katz (close friend, coauthor, and newly minted law professor!). 3D networks, especially dynamic ones, really invoke… Read more ›
